Metal cornice



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Meredith W. Stephens INVENTOR.

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United States Patent METAL CORNICE Meredith W. Stephens, Flat River, Mo., assignor of fifty percent to Walter La Rose, Flat River, Mo.

Application September 27, 1956, Serial No. 612,443

3 Claims. (Cl. 108-26) This invention relates to building construction and more particularly to a novel metal cornice for use in finishing the caves of a building.

The primary object of the present invention resides in the provision of means for reducing the cost of materials and labor in finishing the eave of a building by providing a novel metal cornice which may be formed in sections and easily affixed to the wall and rafter at the eaves.

The construction of this invention features a novel locking plate which is adapted to support an eave plate to ornamentally finish the eave of a building with the locking plate having a plurality of fingers formed by slots or cuts therein which fingers not only engage and hold the eave plate in position but also are used in affixing the locking plate to the wall.

Still further objects and features of this invention reside in the provision of an eave construction that is not only strong and durable but is especially neat and will not rot out orwarp while adjusting to walls that are out of alignment and capable of being utilized with roofs of any pitch.

These, together with the various ancillary objects and features of the invention which will become apparent as the following description proceeds, are attained by the metal cornice utilized in the construction of the present invention, a preferred embodiment of the invention being shown in the accompanying drawings, by .way of example only, wherein:

Figure l is a vertical sectional view of an eave constructed in accordance with the concepts of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a partial perspective view of a portion of an eave plate utilized in the invention;

Figure 3 is a plan view of an eave plate;

Figure 4 is a sectional detail view illustrating in an enlarged scale the interlock utilized in the eave plate construction of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a plan view of the locking plate; and

Figure 6 is an enlarged section-a1 detail view as taken along the plane of 66 in Figure 1.

With continuing reference to the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numerals designate similar parts throughout the various views, reference numeral 10 generally designates studs carrying a capping plate 12 and having a suitable finishing surface 14 applied thereto. Suitable rafters 16 are provided for forming a roof with the rafters 16 being superposed'on the capping plate or beam 12 and overhanging the wall 14. In order to finish the eave formed by the overhanging rafter 16 and i the wall 14, the present invention in the form of a metal cornice generally designated by reference numeral 18 is utilized. This metal cornice includes two major portions, an eave plate 20 and a locking plate 22. The locking plate 22 consists of an ornamental lower portion 24 through which nails or other suitable fasteners as at 26 are adapted to extend and fasten the locking plate 24 to the studs 10 and the wall 14. The lower portion 24 may be provided with any suitable ornamental appearance and has an outwardly extending portion 26 terminating in a generally horizontal portion 28. The generally horizontal portion 28 has a flange 30 bent back substantially parallel to the horizontal portion 28 and outwardly toward the end of the rafter 1-6 overhanging the wall '14. This flange 3 0 is provided with a series of cuts or slits as indicated at 32 therein which cuts or slits form the flange into a plurality of fingers as are indicated at 34. Some of these fingers are adapted to be held by, means of suitable fasteners 36 to the studs 10 and to the wall 14 while other of the fingers 34 resiliently engage and hold the horizontal portion 28 of the eave plate 20 between the fingers and the horizontal portion 28 of the locking plate. It is noted that the fingers 34 have the free ends thereof bent upwardly for more easily enabling the insertion of the eave plate into position and for more easily enabling the fingers to be engaged and handled. Other of the fingers 34 engage the rib surfaces 40 formed on the horizontal portion 38 of the locking plate 20. Ventilation apertures 42 are also provided and extend through the horizontal portion 38 of the eave plate. A facia board 44 is held by nails or other suitable fasteners 46 in position so asto sandwich a vertical portion 38 of the eave plate '20 between the vertical ends of the rafter 16 and the facia board 44.

The metal cornice may have the various parts thereof such as the plate 20 formed in sections with innerlocks of the type as best in Figures 2 and 4 provided with the tongues 50, see Figure 3, being received within the crimped portions '52 at the opposite ends of each of the sections of the eave plates 20.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. In a roof construction, a locking plate having a lower ornamental portion adapted to be secured to an outer wall and having a horizontal upper portion and a flange integral therewith overlying said horizontal portion and defining, therewith, an outwardly opening horizontal pocket, an eave plate of generally L-shaped configuration in cross-section and presenting a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, said vertical portion being provided with means for attachement to the inner side of an associated facia board and the horizontal portion of the eave plate terminating in an edge received within said pocket of the locking plate, and said flange being slitted to present a plurality of side-by-side fingers some of which grip said edge of the eave plate and others of which are deformed upwardly for securement to an outside wall.

2. In a roof construction, a locking plate having a lower ornametal portion adapted to be secured to an outer wall and having a horizontal upper portion and a flange integral therewith overlying said horizontal portion and defining, therewith, an outwardly opening horizontal pocket, an eave plate of generally L-shaped configuration in cross-section and presenting a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, said vertical portion being provided with means for attachement to the inner side of an associated facia board and the horizontal portion of the cave plate terminating in an edge received within said pocket of the locking plate, and said flange being slitted to present a plurality of side-by-side fingers some of which grip said edge of the eave plate and others of which are deformed upwardly for securement to an outside wall, said horizontal portion of the cave plate being provided with reinforcing ribs, and said fingers being deformable to" board and the horizontal portion .of the eave plate ternninating in an edge received within said pocket of the locking plate, and said flange being divided to present a plurality of longitudinally spaced fingers, said flange and s 4 underlying horizontal portion of the locking plate frictionally gripping said edge of the eave plate therebetween and at least certain of said fingers being deformable upwardly for securement to an outside wall whereby the locking plate is aflixed to an associated wall both above and below the horizontal portion of the eave plate.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 133,247 Park Nov. 19, 1872 1,142,253 Harris June 8, 1915- 1,224,315 Otte May 1, 1917 1,427,412 Petersen Aug. 29, 1922 1,585,468 Covell May 18, 1926 IWVM I 

